Training costs: a barrier to transition for offshore workers
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Jun 22, 2021
In September 2020, Platform released a report, OFFSHORE: Oil and gas workers’ views on industry conditions and the energy transition, in collaboration with Friends of the Earth Scotland and Greenpeace UK. The report was the culmination of the first large-scale survey of offshore oil and gas workers in the UK, surveying 1,383 workers (approximately 5%...
Osborne’s tax breaks for North Sea oil and a Thatcherism flashback
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Feb 25, 2013
Back in the 70s, the UK and Norway took two very different approaches to the roughly equal share of North Sea oil and gas that they had within their territorial waters. With state-owned oil company Statoil at the helm, Norway cautiously put aside profits and levies from other oil companies operating within its fields into...
Arts cuts, oil sponsorship & Osborne’s North Sea tax breaks
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Nov 1, 2012
This piece (originally titled “From oil to art, liberating culture”)Â is reprinted from The New Home Front II: Policies for Ecological, Social and Economic Renewal that was launched by Caroline Lucas MP in September 2012, outlining a range of policy proposals designed to set the UK on a path to a clean, green future. Since...
